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Following the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], President Zelensky has become a global figure first lionized for his refusal to abandon [[Kyiv]] as Russian missiles struck, and now familiar from his omnipresence on [[social media]], and his sometimes daily speeches to international legislatures and other audiences worldwide.<ref>''[https://thebulletin.org/2022/06/zelenskys-journey-a-standup-comic-stands-up-to-putin-video/ "Zelensky’s journey: A standup comic stands up to Putin"]''</ref> | Following the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], President Zelensky has become a global figure first lionized for his refusal to abandon [[Kyiv]] as Russian missiles struck, and now familiar from his omnipresence on [[social media]], and his sometimes daily speeches to international legislatures and other audiences worldwide.<ref>''[https://thebulletin.org/2022/06/zelenskys-journey-a-standup-comic-stands-up-to-putin-video/ "Zelensky’s journey: A standup comic stands up to Putin"]''</ref> | ||
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+ | Throughout 2022, he became adored by [[Hollywood]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/ukraine-how-zelenskiy-hollywood-man-of-the-hour</ref> | ||
==Early Career== | ==Early Career== |
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Born | 25 January 1978 Kryvyi Rih | |||||||||||
Nationality | Ukrainian | |||||||||||
Alma mater | Kyiv National Economic University | |||||||||||
Religion | Ukrainian Orthodox | |||||||||||
Children | • Aleksandra Zelenskaya • Kiril Zelenskiy | |||||||||||
Spouse | Olena Kiyashko | |||||||||||
Interest of | Gonzalo Lira | |||||||||||
Party | Servant of the People | |||||||||||
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Volodymyr Zelensky is the President of Ukraine, elected in May 2019. He was formerly a comedian and actor [1] who started performing in 1995.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Zelensky has become a global figure first lionized for his refusal to abandon Kyiv as Russian missiles struck, and now familiar from his omnipresence on social media, and his sometimes daily speeches to international legislatures and other audiences worldwide.[2]
Throughout 2022, he became adored by Hollywood.[3]
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Early Career
Wikipedia writes: "Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued a career in comedy and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played the role of the Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party bearing the same name as the television show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.".
Political career
On New Year's Eve 2018, Zelensky launched his presidential election campaign, having played the role of president of Ukraine in the series "Servant of the People" on Ukrainian television. His campaign was focused on bringing peace with the eastern territories, but a week after the inauguration as president he was threatened with death by Dmytro Yarosh, co-founder of the Right Sector, if he were to take actions in that direction.[4]
“Zelenskyy said in his inaugural speech that he was ready to lose ratings, popularity, position.... No, he would lose his life. He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk—if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War.”
Dmytro Yarosh (2019) [5]
![](/w/images/thumb/9/97/Zelensky_frontline_June_2022.webp/290px-Zelensky_frontline_June_2022.webp.png)
He wanted to meet Vladimir Putin in mid 2021.[7][8]
His top aide Serhiy Shefir survived an assassination attempt on 22 September 2021.[9][10] Zelensky himself says he survived more than 12 attempts on his life;[11] it could be noted that while the United States tried to take out Saddam Hussein right at the beginning of the 2003 Iraq war,[12][13] there have been no leadership strikes (as of November 2022) on him during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - he even was able to safely visit cities close to the front-line.[14]
Highlight
On Tuesday 1 February 2022, Boris Johnson arrived carrying a red folder (believed by some to contain the Trident launch codes) for talks with President Zelensky.[15] In a short clip from which the picture to the left is taken, a women can be seen running towards the two, grabbing the folder without the courtesy asking a UK Prime Minister if she can have it,[16] and then moving away in another direction.
Pandora Papers
On 5 March 2022, Lowkey tweeted:
"The much-vaunted Pandora Papers revealed the patriotic President Zelensky was storing payments from his top funder, Israeli Igor Kolomoysky, in offshore accounts. Kolomoysky is also a funder of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion & the Aidar Battalion".[17]
High as a kite, or just acting? At some point in 2022 Zelensky uploaded a curious video of himself, which seem to indicate strongly that he is under influence of some substance.[18] Ramzan Kadyrov commented that he thinks Zelensky may has schizophrenia. Video title: Ramzan Kadyrov on Zelenskyy's statement to wage war for 10 years (this version has a translation of Kadyrov's words into English and uses a looped sequence from Zelensky's video) / Fallen U.S. Soldiers YT channel) |
Cocaine addiction?
There are some videos,[19][20] one being particularly noteworthy,[21] that show behaviour that could indicate, that Zelensky may have a habit of cocaine consumption. In 2019 (before the election) he refused to have a blood test.[22][23]
Quotes by Volodymyr Zelensky
Page | Quote | Date | Source |
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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | “I asked them – are you with us?” Zelensky said. “They answered that they are with us, but they don’t want to take us into the alliance. I’ve asked 27 leaders of Europe, if Ukraine will be in NATO, I’ve asked them directly — all are afraid and did not respond We were left by ourselves. Who is ready to go to war for us? Honestly, I don’t see anybody. Who is ready to give Ukraine guarantees of NATO membership? Honestly, everybody is afraid” | 24 February 2022 | Russia Today |
Azov Battalion | “In 2014, when the volunteer squads were defending the country, many of their appeals were quite radical against the Russian Federation. They were volunteers and it was their personal point of view. The Azov battalion are not volunteers, but are part of the National Guard. They are the official army of our state. Those who wanted to engage in politics - they were engaged in politics. Those who decided to be in the AFU, they became part of the AFU,” | May 2022 | |
Ukraine/Death squad | “Bret Baier: I want to have you clear something up for us. And this is these reports about the Azov battalion that is said to be a Nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country, said to be committing their own atrocities. What should Americans know about that unit, about those reports? Volodymyr Zelensky: So Azov was one of those many battalions. They are what they are. They were defending our country. [Zelensky continues to explain that these volunteer organizations were later incorporated into the military and are not a self governing structure anymore] Back in 2014 there were situations when our volunteers were encircled and some of them did violate laws, laws of Ukraine and they were actually taken to court and got prison sentences.” | 2 April 2022 | Fox News |
Appointments by Volodymyr Zelensky
Appointee | Job | Appointed | End |
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Lyudmyla Denisova | Ukraine/Ombudsman | 15 March 2018 | 31 May 2022 |
Mykhailo Fedorov | Ukraine/Minister/Digital Transformation | 29 August 2019 |
Related Quotations
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | “The bitter truth is that Washington's foreign policy establishment never actually considered Zelensky - or his predecessor Poroshenko - to be allies or partners of the United States. Overflowing with a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and extreme cynicism, Washington's elites have always viewed Ukraine as a tool to "regime-change" a Russia that, after its post-Yeltsin recovery, would no longer take its direction from them. The false gods of American exceptionalism are jealous ones indeed.” | Daniel McAdams | 26 February 2022 |
Azov Battalion | “In 2014, when the volunteer squads were defending the country, many of their appeals were quite radical against the Russian Federation. They were volunteers and it was their personal point of view. The Azov battalion are not volunteers, but are part of the National Guard. They are the official army of our state. Those who wanted to engage in politics - they were engaged in politics. Those who decided to be in the AFU, they became part of the AFU,” | Volodymyr Zelensky | May 2022 |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Halifax International Security Forum/2022 | 18 November 2022 | 20 November 2022 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | |
Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | |
Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Biden Works to Prolong Ukraine War | blog post | 7 June 2022 | Craig Murray | "Ukraine is objecting to this plan (for Turkey to clear sea lanes of mines and to police the ships carrying grain) because it objects to the removal of the mines, which I should be clear were put down in the sea lanes by Ukraine to prevent amphibious attack on Odessa." |
Document:BlackRock Plots to Buy Ukraine | Article | 30 December 2022 | Bradley Devlin | As a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, BlackRock the most influential financial institution in the world, plans to cash in on the destruction of that country. |
Document:Faced with Donbass defeat, US and UK up the ante in Ukraine | Article | 8 June 2022 | Chris Nineham | Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian professor of political studies at the University of Ottawa, argues: “The US and UK governments show no efforts or desire to achieve peaceful settlement of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” |
Document:How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine | Article | 13 February 2023 | Medea Benjamin Nicolas J. S. Davies | President Eisenhower famously said that only an "alert and knowledgeable citizenry" can "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. An "alert and knowledgeable citizenry" would surely then demand that our government stop fueling this war and instead support immediate peace negotiations. |
Document:The Assange Case Invalidates US Criticisms Of Russia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix | Article | 14 April 2022 | Caitlin Johnstone | Just the fact that the US and UK are imprisoning a journalist for exposing the war crimes of a war criminal president — just that one fact by itself — completely invalidates all criticisms of Russia from Washington and its allies. |
Document:What Might A Ukraine Peace Agreement Look Like? | blog post | 13 May 2022 | Craig Murray | Currently nobody in power wants peace. It is often impossible to resolve a geographic conflict without some element that can be portrayed as endorsement of ethnic cleansing. These are the problems of peace. |
References
- ↑ some of his more odd performances have received renewed attention during his presidency - Козаки | Пороблено в Украине, пародия 2014 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2016 Playing Piano with Penis
- ↑ "Zelensky’s journey: A standup comic stands up to Putin"
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/ukraine-how-zelenskiy-hollywood-man-of-the-hour
- ↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/zelensky-and-the-fascists-he-will-hang-on-some-tree-on-khreshchatyk.html
- ↑ https://larouchepub.com/pr/2022/20220306_yarosh.html
- ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=we-C5KhIffc
- ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/20/europe/ukraine-zelensky-putin-meeting-intl/index.html
- ↑ https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/06/30/661239/meeting-Ukraine-Putin
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/22/shots-fired-car-carrying-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelenskiy-top-aide
- ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/22/europe/serhiy-shefir-aide-ukraine-president-assassination-attempt-intl/index.html
- ↑ https://www.newsweek.com/volodymyr-zelenskyy-assassination-attempt-killing-ukraine-president-russia-1686329
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/u-s-launches-decapitation-strike-against-iraq-saddam-personally-targeted
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/20/newsid_3495000/3495453.stm
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/ukraines-volodymyr-zelensky-visits-front-lines-near-severodonetsk/
- ↑ "Trident launch codes quickly recovered" saved at Archive.is (local archive)
- ↑ https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1488880571149438983
- ↑ "The much-vaunted Pandora Papers revealed the patriotic President Zelensky was storing payments from his top funder, Israeli Igor Kolomoysky, in offshore accounts"
- ↑ https://odysee.com/@Aniassy:a/Leonid-Krotopkow---Es-schneit-in-Kiew.--Selenskyj-1516130690584227842:4
- ↑ https://drdannielleblumenthal.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/is-zelensky-a-cokehead/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5aVjvIPuM saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkV6yK_GhGI saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is / Odysee backup
- ↑ https://en.news-front.info/2021/12/20/there-is-no-100-evidence-of-zelenskys-drug-addiction-but-many-facts-point-to-this/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://tass.com/world/1053607 saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is